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Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces her… - George Sand
" "Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write” Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write
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About George Sand
Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), most famous under her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism.
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Alternative Names:
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
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Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin
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Baroness Dudevant
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Jules Sand
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Lucie Dudevant
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Aurore Amantine Lucile Dupin
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Aurore Amantine Lucile Sand
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Amandine-Aaurore-Lucile Dupin
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George nee Dupin Sand
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Mrs. George Sand
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Georges Sand
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Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant
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Amandine-Aaurore-Lucile Dudevant
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Lucile Aurore Dupin
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A.A.L. Dudevant-Dupin
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write
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